Sextortion scams surged globally as AI and breached data enable personalized attacks, exploiting fear and deepfake threats.

In fact, the data security and privacy firm found the risk of Americans being targeted by sextortion scammers rose 137% in ...

Avast researchers are seeing countries around the world being impacted by these highly manipulative scams. In the US, the ...

Sextortion scams are becoming more common – and more threatening – as cybercriminals exploit artificial intelligence (AI) and ...

In today’s interconnected world, cyber security threats increasingly target both individuals and organisations, using ...

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Customers at three banks lost over $870 million to scams on Zelle since it launched in 2017, according to a lawsuit filed by the Consumers Financial Protection Bureau. Banking giant JPMorgan Chase ...

Scammers are in on the sextortion trend. Our expert analysis on this trend found that the likelihood of being targeted by sextortion scammers in the first few months of 2025 increased by a whopping ...

A woman overseas thought she was in a relationship with Brad Pitt and believed she was sending him around $1.5 million for cancer treatment. Thousands of Kiwis have fallen victim to romance scams ...

Only, it wasn't Ian. It was a scam phone call so convincing that Kevin and Marilyn wonder if fraudsters used artificial intelligence to clone Ian's voice. And Crawford says that even though ...